FTCE: Subject Area K-6: Language Arts Questions and Answers Graded A+

A teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip to the zoo. The class reads the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of text. This is a good practice activity to develop_______ Print Concept Which word recognition skill would be most effective for teaching the following words; "disagreeable, reappearance, substandard, intramural" Structural analysis Which of the following skills should students use to decode the following words "infiltrate, intervene, disarm, transport" Structural analysis and phonics A teacher who provides direct word study instruction beginning with vowel-consonant and consonant-vowel-consonant words and progressing to consonant-consonant-consonant-vowelconsonant and consonant-consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant words is using Explicit Systematic instruction When reading a book to a kindergartner, a teacher changes tone of voice to show different characters, pauses at commas, and changes pitch to show punctuation. Which component of fluency is the teacher demonstrating Prosody On Friday afternoons, students in a 4th grade reading class reread a story selection with a classmate, then read in unison with each other, and finally, choose a new book to read together. This activity is called Shared Reading In a 6th grade language arts lesson on storytelling, a teacher wants students to use visual representations in lieu of words to tell their autobiography. Which of the following activities would best match the learning objective? Creating a picture bookWhich activity would best help students to understand the authors organization of content-area test? Preview topics and subtopics A 1st grade teacher is reading a big book to students. While reading, the teacher moves a pointer under the words. On which emergent literacy concept is the teacher focusing? Directionality A teacher's class has written a paragraph about their summer vacation. The teacher has asked that they reread their paragraphs and check carefully for mechanical errors. This teacher is teaching the class to Edit Which mode of writing consists of the main focus as entertaining including stories, poems, and plays? Narrative writing A teacher is concerned about a student and feels there may be difficulties that are interfering with their academic work. The teacher does want to draw attention to the student and feels writing about it would be most effective in opening a line of communication between the teacher and the student in this scenario? Dialogue Journal Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly? Separate Which of the following assessment procedures would most effectively measure students understanding of the word meaning? Sentence generation using the words Which of the following assessment methods is an individual, informal observation in which a teacher indicates a students oral reading behavior using a series of check marks and notes? A fluency inventory Shondra is a 5th grader who is struggling with a reading assignment. Her teacher wants to give her extra help and thus accumulated the following test information:Percentile Stanine Vocabulary 52 4 Comprehension 38 3 Reading analysis 83 7 IRI GE 2.1 Comments: Shondra has good word attack skills, but she does not seem to remember what she reads. What strategy would be most helpful for Shondra? Teacher the student comprehension strategies such as prediction and self questioning. The correlation between the results of a final exam and the results of a standardized test taken just prior to the final is -0.65. Bases on this information, which is the most likely conclusion? The standardized test and the final exam appear to be measuring different content A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicated that the student Scored as well as or better than 80% of the norming group An activity in which the participants read aloud a selection as though it were a play is a Readers theatre While reviewing beginning of the year test data, a kindergarten teacher notices that the students were unable to consistently hear initial sounds in words. Which of the following activities would help develop this skill? Listening to tongue twisters Which of the following is a measure of a students emergent oral skill set? Nonsense word Fluency Which of the following elements of legibility would a students use to analyze their own handwriting? Alignment